Since Nov.2003 I was moved from China to the U.S.A. That night I saw many chinese signboard spread all over the Av. And I just heard that is 8 Av in Brooklyn(Small Chinatown). Since the 1980's, the neighborhood has attracted many immigrants from China centered on an area now known as 8th Avenue from 42nd to 62nd Street, where the city's third-largest Chinese community (after Manhattan's Chinatown and Flushing, Queens) can be found. Some of the reason the Chinese settled on 8th Avenue is because in Chinese folklore, the number eight is lucky for financial matters, and "8th Avenue" can be loosely interpreted as "road to wealth".
8th Av is road with Chinese businesses, including grocery stores, restaurants, Buddhist temples, video stores, bakeries, and community organizations, and even Hong Kong Supermarket. As the picture above shows the traffic was busy, people shopping on the streets. Another explanation is the direct subway ride to Manhattan's Chinatown on the N/R and D lines. If you don't want take subway you may take the small buses in the 8av the buses is express to the East Broadway which is the central of the chinatown in Manhattan. Finally, when you walk on the 8th Av, you can taste any chinese food and you can gather whatever information or the stuff you need. Some Chinese businesses are also appearing on parts of 7th Avenue, and east on 9th Avenue. Also, you can feel that you were in China, people's behavior and languages reveal that is a really chinese community. I felt that I never leave China.
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